Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB

Name: SYMES, SANDHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: 1842
Nature: Proposed conversion of hull of a West Indiaman into a floating clubhouse.
Refs: Plans and elevations, s. & d.1842, in collection of Royal St George Yacht Club (photographs in IAA); Orla McShane, 'The Life and Times of Sandham Symes, Jr', unpublished thesis submitted to Trinity College, Dublin, for Moderatorship Part II Examination, 1988, 43, Pl.102

Name: MULVANY, JOHN SKIPTON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: 1842-43;1848
Nature: Completed 1843. Enlarged by Papworth. JSM proposes new front, 1848 (not executed).
Refs: Drawings, 1842,1848, in Office of Public Works collection, National Archives; Peter Pearson., Dun Laoghaire (1981), 74,76(illus.); Frederick O'Dwyer, 'John Skipton Mulvany, architect, 1813-1870', Martello (Summer 1988), 37; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of John Skipton Mulvany', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 3 (2000), 17(illus.),25,26(illus.),27

Name: PAPWORTH, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: 1844-45;18??
Nature: Doubled J.S. Mulvany's existing building, adding new W portico and N facing apse-ended wing; after 1845 added 6-column screen to S front, steps from terrace to ground floor on N front.
Refs: Drawings in NA, OPW collection, old ref. G.4.5; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of John Skipton Mulvany', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 3 (2000), 18,19(illus.),26(illus.),28

Name: SYMES, SANDHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: 1855
Nature: Proposed new porch and E wing with N apse to match existing W wing. Not executed. New windows in existing porticos.
Refs: Drawing(s), s. & d. 8 Sep 1855, and letter, 15 Sep 1855, in NA, OPW drawings and MSS

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: 1861
Nature: Proposed remodelling.
Refs: Sperspective view and elevation, s. & d. 1861, in collection of Royal St George Yacht Club (photographs in IAA); Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of the Board of Public Works 1831-1923', Public Works: the architecture of the Office of Public Works 1831-1987 (AAI, 1987), 20

Name: MILLAR & SYMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: 1895;1903
Nature: Works at, 1895; alts., including extra storey, 1903
Refs: Diary of R.C. Millar (entries for 17 Oct 1895 and ?Feb 1903) in collection of Mrs D. Millar, 1976; Irish Times, 19 Jan 1903

Name: MITCHELL, W. M., & SONS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: 1913
Nature: Alts.
Refs: IB 55, 12 Apr 1913, 222

Name: BRADBURY, EDWIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: 1919
Nature: Alterations.
Refs: IB 61, 11 Oct 1919, 454

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CROFTON ROAD, ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed remodelling.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of the Board of Public Works 1831-1923', Public Works: the architecture of the Office of Public Works 1831-1987 (AAI, 1987), 20